U+2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK

The Unicode character U+2018, officially named LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Punctuation block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as SINGLE TURNED COMMA QUOTATION MARK.

Categorized technically as a Initial Punctuation, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.